Games Add Fun To Any Classroom: Try These 14 Sites For Game Templates

Game Templates- editing required and add your own content

Game Templates for Teachers- includes Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Weakest Link and Twenty Questions

Games for the Classroom- many different PowerPoint games

Games for the Science Curriculum- includes Science Jeopardy, Science Bingo, Science Baseball, Science Pictionary

Jeopardy Games- long list covers elementary, middle school and high school and includes many curriculum areas

Jeopardy Labs- thousands of Jeopardy templates for various school subjects- browse or make your own

Math Jeopardy Games- covers grades 1-7

Parade of Games in PowerPoint- Bingo, what's the Truth, Scavenger Hunt and more

PowerPoint Activities- templates, games in subject areas, lessons

PowerPoint Games Templates- listing includes blank templates and games created with content

PowerPoint Games- nice listing includes Password, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Twenty Questions.

PowerPoint Jeopardy Games- created by 5th grade students

Templates and Pre-Made Games- nice listing includes Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Microsoft Word game boards

Vicki Blackwell's PowerPoint Templates for Teachers- loads of web site resources

44 Things That Are All About Dewey (The Dewey Decimal System, That Is)

GAMES AND QUIZZES
Basic Dewey Decimal

Becoming Familiar With Dewey- print a certificate when you are done

Can You Do the Dewey?

Deciphering the Dewey Decimal System- short matching quiz on the ten categories

Dewey and the Alien

Dewey Call Numbers-quiz

The Dewey Challenge

Dewey Decimal Crossword Puzzle

Dewey Decimal Hangman

DDS- timed game

Dewey Decimal System- match books with their Dewey number (easy)

Dewey Decimal System- match books with their Dewey number (medium)

Dewey Decimal System- match books with their Dewey number (hard)

Dewey Decimal Interactive Quiz

Do the Dewey

Do We Really Know Dewey?

Doin' Dewey with Mr. B

Flood in the Library- game for young kids from PBS

Fun Trivia: Dewey Decimal System

Kids Click for Dewey

Let's Do Dewey

Let's Do the DDC- OCLC's interactive site

Library Skills Game

Match the Author With the Correct Call Number

Order in the Library- excellent shelving game which has many levels of play; can be used for any age level

Quiz Me

Study Stack- matching game

LESSON PLANS
Dewey Bingo- MS Publisher document

The Dewey Decimal Classification System- written by Jean Halsey

Dewey Decimal Game 2- for 4th graders

The Dewey Directory- download a copy for your library

The Dewey Rap- for 4th graders

The Dewey Rap Music- .wav file

Free Presentations in PowerPoint Format

Huey and Louie Meet Dewey- for grades 3-5, 6-8

Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System

WEB QUESTS
The Book Disaster- for 5th graders

Dewey Decimal Web Quest

DeweyWorld- grades 4-6

Help! I am Locked in the Library- fro grades 4-6

Hunt For Dewey Decimal System

Vermont School Library Dewey Web Quest

What is a Call Number?- designed by 6th graders

Who Was Dewey?

WOW! 100 Interactive Games, Lessons and Quizzes For Your Students

Hopefully you have been bookmarking sites you'd like to use with your students in the new school year. The collection on this page covers the main subject areas: Social Studies, Language Arts, Technology, Science, Math and Foreign Language. I could have continued on and on but thought at some point I needed to stop. Be sure and add any sites you like to use. I can always edit this page at any time. Enjoy!

Geography/ History
GeoGame- interactive geography game

Geography Hangman

Geography IQ-online world atlas "packed with geographic, economic, political, historical & cultural information".

Geography Quiz

Global History & Geography Multiple Choice Questions

Hiroshima Quiz

History Mystery

HyperHistory Online- over 2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world history

InfoPlease Interactive Atlas- from Fact Monster

Learn About Finland- for grades 9-12; video clips & quizzes

Lewis and Clark- from National Geographic

Mr. Nussbaum's Social Studies Games- grades 2-5

The Oregon Trail- interactive site produced by History Globe.com

Road Maps and Mileage Tables

Salem Witch Hunt- interactive from National Geographic

States Web Games- locate the state, place the state, state postal abbreviations, state capitals etc. Different levels.

U.S. Constitution Trivia

United States Presidents Trivia Game- interactive online game

United States Quiz Game- select your level of difficulty

World Capital Concentration

Language Arts
Activities for ESL Students

American Literature Trivia

Conjunctions

Correct or Incorrect?- check your grammar

English Zone- the BEST English-Learner's site on the Net!

Grammar Bytes

Mr. Nussbaums's Language Arts Games- grades 2-4

Name That Literary Element

Parts of Speech

Passive Voice

Preposition Practice

Self-Study Grammar Quizzes

A Shakespeare Quiz

SpellBee.org- for grades 2-6; compete with your peers in an online spelling bee

Using Nouns as Adjectives

Word Game of the Day- from Merriam-Webster; word games, downloads

Math
Algebra Flash Cards

Algebra Matching

BasketMath Interactive- exponents (in Spanish and English)

Billy Bug- helps middle school kids learn coordinates

Billy Bug 2- a new quest for middle schoolers

Decimal & Whole Number Jeopardy

Decimal Multiplication Football

Decimal Quiz

Exponents

Fish Tank-probability

Fractions

Hitting the Target- learning angles through sports

Hooda Math Games- geometry, arithmetic, logic

Interactive Graphs

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany & Puzzles- History of math, math glossary; GRADES K-12

Line Jumper Algebra

MathCar Racing- integers

MathDork- view 10 of 24 lessons for free; animated algebra lessons

Motivating Math- practical math for people on the go

Mr. Nussbaum's Math Games- color coated by grade level; mainly for younger kids

Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies- integers

Online Graphing Calculator- Java mathematical graphing system

S.O.S. Mathematics-Algebra

Sumdog- free math games

Virtual Coin Toss-probability

Mind Games
Brainbashers-brainteasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions

Play With Your Mind-collection of original mind games and IQ tests

Science
The Amazing Human Body

Animal and Plant Classification Mini Quiz

The Atoms Family- from the Museum of Science in Miami, FL

The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits

The Compass Activity Page

Cow's Eye Dissection

Creative Chemistry Crosswords

David's Whizzy Periodic Table

Digestive System

DNA Detective

Drop and Drag Body Parts

Edheads- virtual knee surgery, weather, machines

Electromagnets

Gadget Anatomy- site has an Inventor's Toolbox

Human Body- for Middle School (6th,7th)

Inventor and Inventions

Melting and Boiling

Microscope Magnification

Mitosis: an interactive animation

Mr. Nussbaum's Science Games- grades 2-4

Science Stumpers- play against your classmates

Vascular Plants

The Virtual Body- site is in English or Spanish

Virtual Open Heart Surgery- from the Australian Broadcasting Network; very cool!

Technology
The Bully Roundup- online board game

Career Capture- explore stories of women who use technology

The Carnegie Cyber Academy- Internet safety

Click-n-Learn JR- parts of the computer (interactive learning)

Dance Mat Typing- 4 levels to practice keyboarding

Find the Technology- from ABCya; for younger kids

How Do Computers Work?- keyboarding, computer parts, using a mouse

Online Safety Quiz

Technology: Grades 3-6- from the Utah Education Network; games cover keyboarding, hardware/software and Internet safety
Three Cyberpigs- interactive story teaches young kids about Internet safety

World Languages
Digital Dialects- covers 60 languages

Language Games- choose from 5 different languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German

Language Gain- 10 different languages

Vocabulary Games

The Mission US Multimedia Project

Here's a great site which showcases periods in American History through interactive games. Produced by Thirteen and the Center for Public Broadcasting, Mission US currently has a few missions, with new ones to be added in the future. Grades 5-8 will really enjoy the multimedia experience and teachers will find the online classroom guides very helpful. Registration is free. Thanks to Dodie Ainslie for posting on Twitter!